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- From: jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen)
- Subject: Re: Upset about IBM misinformation.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.134805.8050@cs.joensuu.fi>
- Organization: University of Joensuu
- References: <1993Jan25.064002.3937@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993Jan25.000734.63146@cc.usu.edu> <1993Jan25.091315.5977@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:48:05 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan25.000734.63146@cc.usu.edu> sl1yn@avon.declab.usu.edu (869483 Denys Larry) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan25.064002.3937@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
- >>
- >> [A hell of a lot of bitching about IBM deleted here.]
- >>
- >>
- >> That was very nice bit of ranting, Brian. Now how about a similar
- >>article about the lies and distortions of Crapsoft...er, Microsludge...er,
- >>damn, just can't get it right...Microsoft. You could break it up into
- >>a four or five part series.
- >>
-
- >This is they typical reaction I get from OS/2 zealots. I make a thought
- >out article, complete with facts and references showing that IBM
- >has been doling out misinformation in an organized manner, and what do
- >I get? Cracks about MS. The vast bulk of MS-bashing in c.o.o.a has
- >no factual basis. If if it were true, why does this let IBM off
- >the hook?
-
- Well... I may be too skeptical, but *I* allways thought that IBM and MS
- exist in order to make *money*. In order to achieve that goal they will do
- anything what law allows them to do. That is how things are going, right?
-
- Both MS and IBM are not saints or saving angels, they just happen to be
- competing against each others in the PC field. For example, I think that
- the MS's claim that *I* could buy an off-the-shelf Windows NT in the beginning
- of 1993 was pure FUD which was intended to make me to sit and wait and not
- to buy UNIX or OS/2. I'm not even sure if MS people believed in that end-of-92
- release date themselves. If not, then it was a fine move. I even waited
- additional months for NT because of that announcement! :-) :-) :-) Maybe Philip
- Laforna or P. Skelly could inform us about the story. I do not think that
- they will answer, but do not be surprised if your favourite company spreads
- FUD when it suits it.
-
-